<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2017 22:46, "Stathis Papaioannou" <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="quoted-text"><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="elided-text"><br><br></div>It is not obvious that a computation about nature can be conscious, but neither is it obvious that it cannot.<font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_2068019221341716712gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">All the 'computations about nature' that have ever been and will ever be discussed in this list were *designed by conscious beings*, also known as consciousness.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">You're making the same mistake as the Chinese Room, which is neglecting the fact that someone had to build the room itself.</div></div>